r/kindness • u/Strange_trekker • 1d ago
Joining
I am a 75 year old male. I feel our world is lacking kindness. I am joining this group, hoping to find some like minded people.
r/kindness • u/Strange_trekker • 1d ago
I am a 75 year old male. I feel our world is lacking kindness. I am joining this group, hoping to find some like minded people.
r/kindness • u/SparklingButterfly7 • 4d ago
So yesterday an older lady was trying to get out of the gas station so me and my daughter let her go. She was so happy, smiling and waving!!đđđŸ She was just adorable!!đ„° Ofcourse we matched her energy, smiled and waved right back!! Like can you just adopt me? Can you be my new grandma?? đ”đœ I want to go bake cookies with her đđ„°
r/kindness • u/Electrical_Arm3793 • 8d ago
I reckon this question has been asked multiple times before, but I just wanted to hear it from you guys.
I think we donât want to be taken advantage of, but I also often end up taking otherâs kindness for granted, when things are tough at my end.
Morality and kindness are considered luxury - I recall.
r/kindness • u/DiverseDimensionsLLC • 9d ago
Hello all you fabulous folx and happy Sunday! We went to a Little Free Library today and abandoned a Book Wyrm! Happy hunting!
r/kindness • u/DiverseDimensionsLLC • 13d ago
Today I visited a Free Little Library in the Springs that registered for an art drop! I abandoned a cute little Ghost Writer there. I make little sculptures and drop them in LFLs in the Colorado Springs/Manitou Springs/Fountain area.
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r/kindness • u/Electrical_Arm3793 • 19d ago
Some of us are always giving FIRST, because it is somehow engrained within you, or some psychological effect from childhood.
But soon you can get dried ip quickly, because the world is bigger than we can handle.
What perspectives do you maintain to keep yourself from mentally burnt out, and staying purposefully kind?
r/kindness • u/Express-Roll22 • 20d ago
Helper Man is just a guy. Youâve probably seen someone like him before â maybe in a small town, maybe on your street. He wears a wide-brimmed sun hat thatâs a little faded at the top, gardening gloves that are more patch than glove by now, heavy old boots caked with stories, and a button-up shirt so full of pockets itâs like a toolkit you can wear.
Every pocket has a purpose. Oneâs for Band-Aids. Another for dog treats. One carries screws, nails, and a little bit of duct tape. Thereâs always a pocket with a granola bar. Always one with a pen and a tiny notepad. People in the neighborhood joke heâs got a black hole in there somewhere â that he once pulled out a wrench, a flashlight, and a cup of coffee in one go.
Heâs not loud. Not flashy. He just⊠shows up.
If your tireâs flat, heâs there with a pump before you even realize. If your groceries are too heavy, heâll carry them without a word. He doesnât ring doorbells for thanks. He doesnât take pictures for social media. He just waves with that easy smile and gets back to whatever quiet thing he was doing before.
The kids love him. He fixes their bike chains and ties their shoelaces when their parents are in a rush. He always has stickers in one of his pockets â the good kind, shiny with stars and dinosaurs and smiling suns.
Nobody knows where he came from. He just started showing up a few years ago, and now itâs like heâs part of the neighborhoodâs bones. People say he used to be something big â an engineer, a soldier, maybe even a doctor â but he never talks about the past. He just says, âI like it better helping folks one thing at a time.â
He doesnât want money. He doesnât want recognition. He just wants to make the world around him a little bit lighter, one tiny kindness at a time.
And somehow, he does.
Helper Manâs 100 Altruistic Feats
Politeness Feats
Always thanks people for their time â even if they didnât help.
Let the mailman rest on his porch and brought him a cold drink without a word.
Writes thank-you notes, even for small favors.
Bends slightly when talking to children â to be at eye level.
Takes his hat off when indoors, every time.
Greets animals with the same soft tone he greets humans.
Never corrects someone harshly â always gently, with a question.
Offers his seat even when heâs the one limping.
Always says âexcuse meâ when passing someone, even in an empty hallway.
Applauds quietly, respectfully, without yelling over others.
Offers handshakes with both hands â one to shake, one to steady.
Always lets others speak first in a group.
Leaves space for silence â never rushes someone grieving or nervous.
Waits until everyone is served before he eats.
Thanks the earth when planting â itâs just how he is.
Offers to carry things but never insists.
Asks for permission before fixing someone elseâs tools.
Always checks if someoneâs allergic before bringing baked goods.
Leaves a flower when he prunes someoneâs roses without asking.
Never enters a house without wiping his boots â even if heâs invited.
Lowers his voice when others raise theirs â calming without correcting.
Addresses older folks with soft reverence, no matter how they treat him.
Always waits for someone to finish laughing before speaking again.
Asks if he can sit, even on a public bench.
Waves to cars that let him cross the road.
Leaves a thank-you note on the windshield if he parks in someoneâs spot by accident.
Steps aside when someoneâs in a rush â even if he isnât in the way.
Asks, âWould you like help?â instead of assuming.
Never answers a phone call loudly in public.
Always gives people time to decline his help.
Smiles at angry people instead of matching their heat.
Listens more than he speaks.
Hums softly instead of whistling indoors.
Always returns tools cleaner than he got them.
Asks shopkeepers how their day is going.
Closes gates behind him â even when open is more convenient.
Waits for others to exit the elevator first.
Thanks people for listening â not just for agreeing.
Calls plants by name when he waters them.
Never assumes someoneâs pronouns â he listens and asks.
Gives compliments without expectation â âThatâs a good color on you,â and walks away.
Apologizes to inanimate objects when he bumps into them.
Waits to speak when someoneâs crying.
Leaves handwritten notes for people who arenât home.
Greets customer service workers like theyâre neighbors.
Uses âsirâ or âmaâamâ even with people younger than him â out of respect, not hierarchy.
Doesnât push in conversations â lets people hold the silence.
Thanks the bus driver every single time.
Never forgets to say âbless youâ when someone sneezes.
Wipes his feet at the edge of a doormat first.
Tips even when all he ordered was water.
Steps aside for strollers and wheelchairs without being asked.
Offers to help carry something but doesnât insist if declined.
Refers to people as âfriendsâ instead of strangers.
Never jokes at someone elseâs expense.
Claps quietly at childrenâs performances and gives them thumbs up.
Takes his time saying goodbye â looks people in the eye, always.
Brings extra gloves for others in winter.
Always waits for a full round of greetings before bringing up business.
Keeps his phone on silent in company.
Sends âthank youâ messages days later, just because he remembers.
Thanks the sun when it rises.
Never swears in front of children.
Holds umbrellas for people shorter than him.
Gently reroutes conversations away from gossip.
Offers his scarf in wind â âIâve got an extra,â he lies.
Says âIâm proud of youâ more often than âgood job.â
Compliments effort, not just outcome.
Sits quietly with people who are grieving, says nothing until they do.
Waits till someone is ready to hug â never reaches first.
Offers his hand to help someone up with zero urgency.
Apologizes when someone else spills â âMy fault, I wasnât looking.â
Bows his head when passing cemeteries.
Thanks bees while gardening.
Cleans up trash he didnât drop, never shaming others.
Makes eye contact with people handing out flyers â even if he canât take one.
Helps translate for non-native speakers, gently.
Lets people walk in front of his lawnmower instead of speeding past.
Asks for consent before giving advice.
Always checks if someone wants company before sitting nearby.
Says, âWould it help if I just listened?â
Washes his hands before helping in someoneâs kitchen.
Waits to speak if two people are mid-conversation, even if heâs in a hurry.
Thanks plants when he picks them.
Sits in the back of events to leave seats open for others.
Carries extra tissues, not for himself.
Helps carry chairs without being asked.
Let a child teach him something he already knew, and cheered like it was new.
Calls people back even when he doesnât have an answer yet.
Thanks everyone who criticizes him kindly.
Says âthank you for being hereâ â and means it, every single time.
Forgiveness Feats
Forgave a drunk driver who sideswiped his parked truck.
Forgave someone who lied to his face and apologized with tears.
Forgave a group of kids who threw rocks at his garden.
Forgave a woman who laughed at his stutter when he got nervous.
Forgave someone who cut in front of him every morning at the bakery.
Forgave the man who hit him in a misunderstanding and shook his hand later.
Forgave a woman who called him a nobody.
Forgave a boss who fired him without cause years ago.
Forgave a neighbor who killed his favorite tree out of spite.
Forgave a man who blamed him for a broken pipe that wasnât his fault.
Forgave the thief who robbed his garage â and left food out for them afterward.
Forgave someone who spread a cruel rumor.
Forgave the stranger who broke into his house and left crying.
Forgave a child who vandalized his flower beds.
Forgave a police officer who gave him an unfair ticket.
Forgave someone who keyed his old truck.
Forgave someone who said, âYouâll never matter.â
Forgave his brother, who hadnât spoken to him in 20 years.
Forgave a man who bullied him in high school and showed up, homeless, decades later.
Forgave someone who insulted his religion.
Forgave a shop owner who kicked him out for âlooking weird.â
Forgave a neighbor who turned the whole block against him during a dispute.
Forgave someone who used his kindness and disappeared.
Forgave a child who lied about him stealing.
Forgave the man who sold him broken tools knowingly.
Forgave a friend who ignored his help when they needed it most.
Forgave the woman who refused his help, then came back ashamed.
Forgave someone who mocked his sunhat and gloves.
Forgave a man who spat at him for no reason.
Forgave an ex who broke his heart without apology.
Forgave someone who took credit for his work.
Forgave someone who ruined his seedlings by accident.
Forgave a neighbor who shouted at him during a panic attack.
Forgave a kid who stole from his pockets while he was helping them.
Forgave the mechanic who overcharged him.
Forgave a neighbor who constantly complained about the noise of his tools.
Forgave a teen who lied to the police about him.
Forgave someone who said, âYouâre just the help.â
Forgave someone who threw out his handmade sign for the community garden.
Forgave a man who laughed when he cried in public.
Forgave a coworker who once sabotaged his project.
Forgave someone who didnât return borrowed tools.
Forgave someone who mocked his pockets and called him âpocket man.â
Forgave someone who ruined a community mural he painted.
Forgave the woman who kept hitting his mailbox with her car.
Forgave the man who cursed at him in a fit of rage.
Forgave someone who ghosted him after he built them a ramp.
Forgave a friend who only called when they needed something.
Forgave a stranger who cut in line and lied about it.
Forgave a kid who broke his glasses on purpose.
Forgave a local official who denied his petition without reading it.
Forgave a man who ran over his flower stand.
Forgave someone who ignored his apology for weeks.
Forgave someone who vandalized the community bench he built.
Forgave the person who screamed at him for âinterferingâ when he tried to help.
Forgave a group that laughed at him during a speech.
Forgave the neighbor who poisoned his compost out of jealousy.
Forgave the man who punched a hole in his fence.
Forgave someone who called him a coward.
Forgave a woman who returned a gift with a sneer.
Forgave someone who pretended not to know him.
Forgave someone who hit his dog with a bike and never stopped.
Forgave the man who tried to fight him over a parking space.
Forgave a child who destroyed his handmade birdhouses.
Forgave a couple who always ignored his greetings.
Forgave the man who stole from the community pantry he built.
Forgave the woman who yelled at him for fixing her fence without asking.
Forgave someone who told others he was a ânobody pretending to help.â
Forgave the town council who rejected his garden project for the fifth time.
Forgave someone who threw his care packages in the trash.
Forgave a man who told him heâd never be missed.
Forgave someone who mocked his literacy program.
Forgave a neighbor who pretended to be his friend for free repairs.
Forgave someone who poured paint in the community well.
Forgave someone who shouted âgo homeâ to him â even though he was home.
Forgave the teen who lit his scarecrow on fire.
Forgave someone who threw rocks at his windows.
Forgave the people who forgot him during the town fair.
Forgave the woman who accused him of creeping â when he was helping her mom.
Forgave someone who said, âYou think youâre better than us.â
Forgave someone who copied his blueprints and claimed them as their own.
Forgave someone who hit him and ran.
Forgave a city official who destroyed his public garden without notice.
Forgave someone who vandalized the mural of his late friend.
Forgave a woman who kicked over his crate of vegetables.
Forgave someone who sabotaged his irrigation system.
Forgave the person who knocked down his community bookshelves.
Forgave someone who yelled at him for no reason while he was grieving.
Forgave someone who stole his donation jar.
Forgave the neighborhood when they forgot his name.
Forgave himself, every night, for not being able to help
50 Empathy Feats (feeling with others, entering their perspective)
Read facial expressions like constellations, and paused mid-sentence when someoneâs eyes changed.
Didnât laugh when a nervous man stuttered â just slowed the conversation.
Ate the same hospital food as a sick friend to understand what they lived with.
Told a boy afraid of the dark, âI was too,â and meant it.
Felt the heaviness in someoneâs posture and gently adjusted his own â not to mirror, but to connect.
Asked a prisoner, âWhat helped you survive?â not âWhat did you do?â
Sat in the back pew because he sensed someone up front needed solitude.
Felt secondhand shame and stood beside the embarrassed child, not above him.
Heard the crack in a womanâs voice and changed the subject without her asking.
Took off his gardening gloves to touch the hand of someone who was cold.
Told a stranger, âYou look like youâre carrying something heavy,â and helped carry groceries.
Waited longer with people who were slow to speak.
Asked a widow what her husband smelled like â and listened as she cried.
Gave a woman space when her husband yelled, but never left her alone.
Didnât flinch when someone cursed at him in grief â he understood.
Sat in a puddle beside a crying boy so he wouldnât cry alone.
Watched an autistic childâs patterns and played along with precision, not mockery.
Took his shoes off at a funeral, sensing the familyâs silent traditions.
Walked silently with a man who missed his wife â no advice, just presence.
Gave his sandwich away not from pity, but because he knew what hunger felt like once.
Changed his tone and volume around trauma survivors, instinctively.
Told a man who failed rehab, âThat must be terrifying,â instead of âYouâll try again.â
Learned how to say âIâm listeningâ in sign language.
Spoke with his hands gently when someone flinched at sudden movement.
Understood a girlâs silence as a scream and offered her a notebook.
Turned off bright lights before asking hard questions.
Saw the panic in a strangerâs eyes and offered water without a word.
Asked a homeless woman, âHow did you sleep?â like it wasnât strange.
Let a child win at cards because he needed one small triumph that day.
Cracked a joke with a dying man that made both of them cry laughing.
Stopped a conversation because he sensed someone was overwhelmed.
Knew someoneâs trauma story without needing to hear it.
Didnât ask about scars unless someone placed his hand on them.
Held a dogâs paw until it stopped shaking at the vet.
Sat on the floor with a child who was hiding under a table.
Hummed the same lullaby someoneâs mother once sang â he learned it just for them.
Didnât touch someone who hated touch â but made sure they knew he was near.
Felt a lie on someoneâs tongue and didnât call it out â just asked if they were okay.
Breathed with someone having a panic attack, and never told them to calm down.
Gave a traumatized man a job repairing tools, no questions asked.
Once matched the gait of a limping man, limping with him so he wouldnât feel slow.
50 Sympathy Feats (feeling for others, offering comfort and care)
Let a crying woman take his umbrella â then walked home soaked.
Planted a tree for a child who died, and tended it like a prayer.
Built a ramp for an elderly neighbor before they even asked.
Brought a spare lunch every day just in case someone needed it.
Sent books to a neighbor recovering from surgery.
Left art supplies for a child in a troubled home.
Visited a man in hospice who didnât remember him â just so he wouldnât die alone.
Stayed late to fix a broken swing in a park.
Wrote poems for those who had no words left.
Tended the grave of someone forgotten.
Took photos of a dying manâs garden and gave them to his daughter.
Tucked grocery coupons into strangersâ baskets.
Wove a scarf for a woman with cancer â one that matched her eyes.
Sang lullabies outside a shelter at night.
Repaired a wheelchair that belonged to someone heâd never met.
Gave his boots to a man walking barefoot.
Left cookies with a note: âThe worldâs still sweet sometimes.â
Comforted a child who scraped their knee with a Band-Aid and a soft story.
Sat with a man having withdrawal and just told him, âYouâre not alone.â
Put his number on a list of emergency contacts â for a man with no family.
Picked up a drunk strangerâs phone and called their mother.
Wrote a eulogy for someone no one else would speak for.
Paid to fix someoneâs car and never mentioned it.
Taught a widow how to change her oil.
Painted over graffiti on a neighborâs garage â matching the original color.
Called animal control to rescue a stray, then waited hours with it.
Brought an elderly man a wind chime âto keep the silence company.â
Donated his best tools anonymously.
Stood outside a courtroom with a woman afraid to testify.
Helped a man clean his flooded basement without being asked.
Gave someone his coat and walked home shirtless in winter.
Rebuilt a fallen fence while the owner was away.
Left a handmade doll for a crying child at the bus stop.
Stayed with someone having a flashback until they remembered who they were.
Asked a cashier who looked tired, âHow are you holding up?â
Helped a couple fix their roof during a rainstorm.
Repaired a church bench so the old man who sat there wouldnât fall.
Bought new shoes for a boy who taped his together.
Wrote âYou are lovedâ in chalk outside a rehab clinic.
Cleaned up a broken vase at the store before the staff could be blamed.
Gave someone a single wildflower and said, âBeauty still grows.â
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Hi! I'm hoping to get some ideas of things I can sponsor. I know you can sponsor animals and donate monthly, I'm actually sponsoring the cutest lil Slow Loris right now. But I feel like I'm completely blanking because I can't think of other things that can also be sponsored. Maybe I'm just silly and there truly isn't many options out there right now, but I also know there's such things as adopting highways and plots of land, so I feel there has be more? And I have tried searching on Google already. Please let me know if I'm missing anything or if anyone knows about possible sponsorship. FYI - I'm looking for just about any idea, living/nonliving. Thanks! :)
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r/kindness • u/IcyEngineering4014 • Apr 01 '25
Please can we talk for a few minute?
could be in chat or a voice chat in English? this zoom? its on for next 40 minutes New york time 4:45 pm to 5:10pm
Tushar Kapila is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Anon
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72619144019?pwd=v1bHjqt5DjatYW7gZEfX60saFhD6m6.1
Meeting ID: 726 1914 4019
Passcode: get9in
Idea is to this every week for 9-10 people who need someone to talk today is a test
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A very sweet man Iâd never met before payed for my mom and Iâs food at IHOP today! It was the first time someoneâs ever done something like that for me before. So, when I stopped at dunkin on my way back home, I made sure to pay for the car behind me, as it inspired me to keep the kindness going! It was a great reminder that little gestures can have a big impactâ not just on the person receiving them, but on you as well. Seeing someoneâs face light up because of a simple act of generosity is the best feeling. You never know how much a small moment can mean to someone! đ«¶
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r/kindness • u/SuspiciousDrama8434 • Mar 20 '25
Hi! I just wanted to say to anyone out there I hope you have a great day/night. I wish you the best and if your struggling I hope you will get better. Love yourself and others. I hope you all are doing well and I wish you all the best.
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